I was enamored, as were all readers of spy, espionage thrillers, with the masterful trilogy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy followed by The Honorable Schoolboy and finishing up with Smiley's People that British author John LeCarre wrote in the 70s and 80s. His hero and master spy for M15, was George Smiley. Did you see Alec Guiness play him in the film version of one of LeCarre's books?
Well, David Cornwell, the real name of the author of the series, died in 2020, but his writer son was able to finish up/polish his last novel, Silverview, and I found it and read it this weekend. What a delight. It is classic LeCarre, twist within twist within twist--who are the "good" guys and who are the "bad" guys, who's telling the truth and who isn't, and how is everyone and everything interrelated? The hallmarks of another fascinating story in the best of the spy genre.
It always leaves me thinking, Do these things really take place in "that world" or is it all a figment of his imagination? If the former, WOW, what a world within the world; and if the latter, where did he get such ideas, the intricacies and story lines?
The New York Times just came out with their "88 books for summer" list. Better get going, there's only about 100 days till labor Day!
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